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BORIS LURIE

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Born July 18, 1924, in Leningrad, Russia. Died on January 7th, 2008, in New York. Together with his parents he moved to Riga in 1925/26. Captured by the Germans 1941 and suffered in the ghettos and concentration-camps of Riga, Salapils, Stutthof and Buchenwald-Magdeburg in Germany. Emigration to USA in 1946. Lived in Paris from 1954 to 1955. Founded with Sam Goodman and Stanley Fisher the NO!art movement in 1959 in co-operation with the March gallery in the Tenth Street in New York, later so called March Group.

2008  GUEST BOOK for Boris Lurie
BORIS LURIE, R.I.P. — Jan Herman, in: artsjournal, New York
2006  SHOAH AND PIN-UPS — Film by Reinhild Dettmer-Finke
2005  THE ARTIST AS PROVOCATEUR — Review by David Katz, New York
WILD BOYS, BAD BOYS, OUTSIDERS ... — Clayton Gallery, New York
THE 80s — Clayton Gallery & Outlaw Art Museum, New York
2004  FEEL-PAINTINGS/ NO!art Show No 4 — Janos Gat Gallery, New York
OPTIMISTIC - DISEASE - FACILITY — Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin
2003  OPTIMISTIC - DISEASE - FACILITY — Buchenwald Memorial, Weimar
optimistic - disease - facility — Video about Boris Lurie by Naomi T. Salmon
2002  NO!art and the Aesthetics of Doom — University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa
NO!art MAN — Film documentary by A. Goldman about Lurie, New York
2001  NO!art and the Aesthetics of Doom [Groupshow] — Block Museum, Evanston, IL
2000  BORIS LURIE - NOT MINCE MATTERS — Interview by Rogákos & Gat
1999  LIFE - TERROR - MIND — Weimar-Buchenwald Memorial, Weimar
1998  WORKS 1947-1998 — Weimar-Buchenwald Memorial, Weimar
NO!art SHOW No 3 with Kirves, Patterson & Vostell — Janos Gat Gallery, New York
1997  CONGRESS OF RESISTANCE, New York
1995  NO!art — Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin
BORIS LURIE and NO!art — Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin
1988  NO!art — Anthology, Edition Hundertmark, Cologne